Day: February 22, 2021💾

NPR

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Biden Speech, Ceremony Honoring COVID-19 Victims : NPR

President Biden and Vice President Harris acknowledged and honored a grim milestone Monday: the death of more than 500,000 Americans from COVID-19.

Biden and Harris, along with first lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, emerged from the White House at sundown. They stood at the foot of the South Portico, covered in 500 candles honoring the dead, and listened to a Marine Corps band play "Amazing Grace" as they held a moment of silence.

This is really sad and thought provoking. I think you should watch it. 

Cringing

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Me watching a YouTube video about how to castrate a pig. 🐽 Me cringing when they get out a knife 🗡 and cut up the testicles. 🙄 At least I now know where food comes from, not that I’m sure I’d want hog Rocky Mountain oysters. 🍲

Highway Nicknames

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Back in the 1950s, local expressways in their planning stages were always known by their nicknames — the proposed Riverfront Route (Interstate 787), Northside Route (Interstate 90), and Crosstown Arterial (NY 85).

Some names have remained — like Alternate Route 7, the Thruway, and the Adirondack Northway but those are the exceptions rather then the rule. I think we should go back to calling the local roads the Riverfront Route, the Northside Route, and the Crosstown Arterial.

The Campaign Against the Vaccines Is Already Under Way – The Atlantic

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The Campaign Against the Vaccines Is Already Under Way – The Atlantic

Today’s anti-vaccine activists, however, enjoy a speed, scale, and reach far greater than those of Dr. Bond’s day. Bottom-up networked activism is driving the spread of anti-vaccine COVID-19 propaganda. Americans are about to see a deluge of tweets, posts, and snarky memes that will attempt to erode trust in the vaccine rollouts. Society’s ability to return to a semblance of normalcy depends on how effectively public-health authorities counter this misinformation and how assiduously media outlets and internet platforms refrain from amplifying it—but also on whether average Americans recognize that the material they click on and share has real-world consequences.